Internet sleuths monitoring flight tracking websites Monday night appear to have picked up the movements of four Air Force Special Operations Command, or AFSOC, flights sent to evacuate the last American diplomats from Ukraine. According to flight tracking services, the Air Force MC-130J Commando IIs, call signs Raggy 81 and…
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Three Russian guided-missile cruisers have been arrayed across the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to counter three NATO carrier strike groups, causing concern in the Pentagon, a U.S. defense official told USNI News on Tuesday. As of Monday, the three Slava-class cruisers were operating in and around the Aegean…
The Kremlin said a dramatic Security Council meeting on Ukraine was recorded in advance, after people realized a minister’s watch showed the wrong time. Amid rising tensions with Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin convened an unscheduled meeting with his country’s top security officials at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow…
U.S. President Joe Biden’s Tuesday announcement of a redistribution of troops in Europe includes sending 800 infantry soldiers to the Baltic region and up to eight F-35 fighter jets to several operating locations along NATO’s eastern flank, a U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. In addition, the United…
Germany on Tuesday halted the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea gas pipeline project, designed to double the flow of Russian gas direct to Germany, after Russia formally recognised two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. Europe’s most divisive energy project, worth $11 billion, was finished in September, but has stood idle…